National Cash Register Company - NCR Computers

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Beautifully engraved certificate from the National Cash Register Company issued in 1971-1974. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of two allegorical men sitting beside a wheel which has the company's name on it. This item has the printed signatures of the companys president and secretary and is over 28 years old. These certificates are very hard to find. NCR History Timeline 1884 - John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash registers. 1906 - Charles F. Kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor. 1952 - NCR acquired Computer Research Corporation (CRC), of Hawthorne, California, which produced a line of digital computers with applications in aviation. 1953 - NCR established the Electronics Division to continue to pursue electronic applications for business machines. 1974 - Company changed its name to NCR Corporation. 1982 - The First NCR Tower supermicrocomputer system was launched, establishing NCR as a pioneer in bringing industry standards and open systems architecture to the computer market. 1991 - NCR acquired by AT&T. 1991 - NCR purchased Teradata Corporation, acquiring its advanced and unique commercial parallel processing technology. NCR Teradata becomes the world's most proven and powerful database for data warehousing. 1994 - NCR name changed to AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS). 1995 - Lars Nyberg appointed chairman and CEO of AT&T GIS. 1995 - AT&T announced spin-off of AT&T GIS by the end of 1996. 1996 - AT&T GIS changed its name back to NCR Corporation in anticipation of being spun-off to AT&T shareholders by January 1997, as an independent, publicly-traded company. 1997 - Signaling its evolution from a hardware-only company to a full solutions provider, NCR purchased Compris Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of store automation and management software for the food-service industry, and Dataworks, a company that develops check-processing software. 1998 - NCR finalized the transfer and sale of their computer hardware manufacturing assets to Solectron, confirming NCR's commitment to concentrate on the market-differentiated software and services components of their solutions portfolios. 1998 - NCR sold its TOP END middleware software to BEA Systems in a move to expand NCR's application software offerings while moving away from horizontal general purpose computer software. 1998 - NCR purchased 50 percent of Stirling Douglas Group, Inc. (SDG), a privately-held software firm and leading provider of merchandise management applications. 2000 - Leading e-businesses such as Travelocity.com, E*Trade and Microstrategy implemented NCR's Teradata warehouse solutions as the foundation of their sophisticated customer-focused offerings and marketing initiatives.